If you have people who follow your work — your teaching, your writing, your speaking — then you’re the bus driver. That role comes with passengers and it comes with responsibility.

There’s trust involved. Trust that you’re going where you promised and in the manner you promised.

A certain level of surprise is allowed — even appreciated. But that’s not the same as changing drivers, or radically changing the destination.

Break your promise too many times, and you might find yourself driving an empty bus.